Background
Dollahite, David Curtis was born on December 17, 1958 in Greenbrae, California, United States. Son of Melvin Lewis and Elizabeth Dollahite.
Dollahite, David Curtis was born on December 17, 1958 in Greenbrae, California, United States. Son of Melvin Lewis and Elizabeth Dollahite.
Bachelor, Brigham Young University, 1983. Master of Science, Brigham Young University, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1988.
He is a co-leader (with Doctor Loren Marks) of the American Families of Faith project ()
He has been a visiting scholar at the Religion Program of Dominican University of California, at the Center for the Family at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and at the Center on Adolescence at Stanford University. Dollahite edited the book Generative Fathering: Beyond Deficite Perspectives with Alan J. Hawkins. Dollahite also edited Strengthening Our Families: A In-Depth Look at the Proclamation on the Family"(Bookcraft, 2000), "Helping and Healing Our Families" (with Craig Hart, Lloyd Newell, and Elaine Walton, Deseret Book, 2005), "Successful Marriages and Families" (with Alan Hawkins and Thomas Draper, Brigham Young University Studies, 2012), and "Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life" (with Orson Scott Card, Bookcraft, 1998).
Dollahite has written two hymns with music by South. Gordon Jessop.
Both were performed at the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Music Festival in the Salt Lake Assembly Hall on Temple Square. Among the articles Dollahite has authored or co-authored are "Fathering, Faith and Spirituality" in Journal of Men"s Studies, Volume
7, northern 1; "Faithful Fathering In Trying Times: Religious Beliefs and Practices of Latter-day Saint Fathers with Special Needs Children" same issue of Journal of Men"s Studies.
"Fathering, Faith and Family Therapy" in Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 2002.
He was a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1989 to 1993 and has been a member of the Brigham Young University faculty since 1993.
Married Mary Kimball, August 20, 1983. Children: Rachel Elizabeth, Erica Evelyn, Camilla Mary, Kathryn Kimball.